Season Dates: December to April

HALLO,
WAGRAIN

fact Ski-in, ski-out
in the middle
of Snow Space
Salzburg

Wagrain is the village in the middle of Snow Space Salzburg, with the Flying Mozart gondola rising out of the centre into 210km of tree-lined pistes shared with Flachau and Alpendorf. Students stay beside that gondola, in a family-run four-star hotel or a youth hotel built for school groups, and ski back to the door at the end of the day. Lessons run five hours a day, and the evenings are a swim at the water park, indoor mini golf, curling, ice skating and a torchlit walk.

RESORT INFORMATION

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Altitude Range 750m – 2,188m
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No. of Ski Lifts 70
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Marked Pistes 210km
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Longest Run 6km
FOUR-STAR HOTEL
SELF-CATERED HOUSE
YOUTH HOTEL, SKI-IN, SKI-OUT

A FOUR-STAR HOTEL BY THE GONDOLA

A family-run four-star hotel in the centre of Wagrain, three minutes’ walk from the Flying Mozart gondola, with a piste that brings the group back to the door at the end of the day. Students share modern ensuite rooms, and downstairs there is a heated indoor pool, a fitness room, lounges for the evenings and a sauna for the staff.

Breakfast is a buffet and dinner is served in the hotel restaurant, with a hot lunch on the mountain each day with the instructors. Dietary requirements are catered for once the school has sent them to us.

Beginners take the free ski bus five minutes across the village to the Grafenberg gondola, where the ski school and the nursery slopes are, and the stronger groups meet their instructor at the Flying Mozart. Our Schools Go Skiing Leader stays with the group all week.

ACCOMMODATION FACTS

Type:

Family-run four-star hotel

Accommodates:

Groups of up to 50, confirmed per booking

SGS Star Rating:

Ski Lift Distance:

3 minutes’ walk to the Flying Mozart gondola; ski back to the hotel

Facilities:

Ensuite rooms Free Wi-Fi Restaurant Heated indoor pool Fitness room Sauna for staff

SKIING IN Wagrain

Wagrain sits in the centre of Snow Space Salzburg’s 210km of pistes and 70 lifts, with Flachau on one side and Alpendorf on the other, between 750m and 2,188m. The lifts and the snowmaking are among the most modern in Austria, and the pistes are groomed and open from December to April. Lessons are five hours a day in groups of eight to ten students per instructor.

Beginners at Grafenberg

The nursery slopes and the ski school meeting point are at the top of the Grafenberg gondola, a five-minute ride on the free ski bus from the hotels, on wide, gentle pistes with their own lifts. First-timers spend their mornings up there and work towards the long blue run back down to the village.

210km on one pass

From the Flying Mozart, intermediates can ski across to Flachau in one direction and Alpendorf in the other on long blue and red runs through the trees, and be back in Wagrain for the last lift. The area pass covers all three villages, and stronger skiers have the rest of Ski amadé, over 700km in all, a short bus ride away.

Lessons with Skischule Rot-Weiss-Rot

Lessons are with Skischule Rot-Weiss-Rot, a family-run Wagrain ski school whose instructors are all local, in groups of eight to ten students per instructor for five hours a day with a hot lunch on the mountain in between. The hire shop at the Grafenberg gondola stays open late on arrival day, so the group is fitted the evening it lands.

TAKE A LOOK AROUND

What a week in Wagrain includes.

SKI EQUIPMENT HIRE

Skis or a snowboard, boots, poles and a helmet for every student, fitted by the ski school at the Grafenberg gondola on arrival evening, with name stickers on the skis and the bindings set from the heights and weights the school sends in advance.

EAT AND DRINK

A breakfast buffet and dinner at the hotel, with a hot lunch on the mountain every day; at the youth hotel the mountain lunch can be hot or packed. Dietary requirements are catered for.

ACTIVITIES

Evenings are a swim at Wasserwelt Amadé, 18-lane indoor mini golf, outdoor curling, ice skating, a torchlit night walk, a jewellery workshop and a quiz with the end-of-week awards, with live ice hockey in Zell am See when the fixtures fall right, all included.

TRANSPORT

Flights into Salzburg, an hour from the hotel, or Munich at two and a half hours, with a private coach waiting at arrivals. In resort the gondola is a few minutes’ walk from both hotels, and the free ski bus runs across the village to the beginner slopes.
They demonstrated perfectly how school trips should be run. Their promotional materials at the planning stage really helped to get the students excited and provide parents with peace of mind.
– Hurtwood House

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